Providing affordable homes for Californians has many benefits. It generates jobs, supports business expansion, reduces crime, improves air quality and improves public health. Sounds like a no-brainer. But the state needs to do more to help local governments tackle the state’s devastating housing crisis. California has seen a 69 percent overall decline in state and federal investment in production and preservation of affordable housing since the Great Recession in 2008. Yet Gov. Jerry Brown’s 2017-18 budget plan makes no new investment in affordable home construction. We urgently need action from the state.
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